The champion of life is a dead knight, wielding a cursed blade.
In 1348, Italy, a cabal of priests awaken the Old Ones from before the dawn of history. With an ancient spell, they unleash the Black Death to power their sorcery. But they have not counted all the costs of their evil.
Some dead do not stay down. This one opens his eyes, tears himself free from the grass growing through his armor and thirsts for vengeance. He is the Darkling, and with the rising of ancient demons, he is the Earth's last hope to defeating them.
Assassin of the Damned is the tale of an unlikely hero from "the other side of the coin."